This is an impressive story about gender roles, appearance and the performance of subjectivity. Mum of the year is a ‘man’: Woman who has lived as a man for 40 YEARS so she could support her daughter is honoured by Egypt An Egyptian widow lived her life as a man for 43 years so she […]

This is Life (with Lisa Ling) Lisa Ling: What I Learned As an Average Student Robert Clark Graham Inequality for All Inequality for All is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth. The film examines widening income inequality in the United States. The film is presented by American economist, author and professor Robert Reich.[1] […]

It is a story that tries to explain what poverty means, from the Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The book is not liberating, but it is interesting to read and perhaps helpful for many people to imagine some social phenomena that they might have not first-hand experienced. If I use Why […]

Parents, Teachers Deliver Over 100,000 Signatures To Time Magazine Demanding Apology Teachers, parents and union leaders gathered in front of Time magazine headquarters on Thursday to protest the publication’s latest cover. According to a press release from the American Federation of Teachers, the cover (pictured below) depicts teachers as “‘rotten apples’ needing to be smashed […]

We can choose to focus on what is beautiful and fun. And sometimes inequality looms all over the space you are living in. For some people, this is the situation of their whole life. Do not jump to the conclusion that these people do not choose to focus on what is beautiful and fun. I […]

“One December evening, I used one of my most embarrassing moments as the basis for an essay for a 17-year-old Chinese girl who had never desired something she could not afford. The event happened shortly after my father abandoned my family when I was a kid, leaving us broke. Our water and lights were turned […]

Hồng Nhung, one of the four coaches of The Voice of Vietnam 2013, gave 100% of her support to Cát Tường. Thus, the audience’s votes for the two contestants on her team in the semifinal live show, Cát Tường and Hà Linh, did not count. Cát Tường safely entered the finals. That decision is only one of the amazing […]

I see myself departing from pink, and I do not know why. Neither did I know why I picked it up. “Speaking in terms of light, pink should probably be called ‘minus-green,’ because pink is just the leftovers of white light when you take out the green.”

“Robertino” was just a name my mom mentioned in a conversation about music with a neighbor. At that time I did not have any resources to search for more about Robertino. I guess I remember every story Mom has told. “Things that happen before one is born are the same” does not hold true […]